Accountability Scrutiny and Oversight

This is the report of the Commonwealth Workshop on Accountabiltiy, Scrutiny and Oversight, which took place in Canberra over three days in May 2001.

The workshop participants - parliamentarians, academics and senior figures in civil society from fifteen Commonwealth countries - considered how accountability mechanisms and oversight institutions can be strengthened and made more effective.

The workshop was the seventh in the Commonwealth Secretariat's Deepening Democracy series and was organised with the Centre for Democratic Institutions of the Australian National University.

Download the Report in PDF.